karen travers, abc news, washington. >>> tonight your plants might be under stress from the cold. >> absolutely. also your pets, plants, probably not pipes. most of us are prepared definitely those two things to consider as we look at sunny conditions over the east bay hill and east bay valleys from vollmer peak back towards mount diablo, from emeryville towards san francisco, some of clouds over the ocean, where live doppler continues to pick up clouds and showers. showers are becoming less intense and numerous looks like we will escape today the showers and be dry. if you are about to leave upper 40s to low 50s around here. mid 40s to near 50 around the monterey bay and inland. partly cloudy today, showers stay over the ocean. freezing cold everywhere tonight. stormy pattern starts thursday. cold front from yesterday moving to the south bringing rain to southern california. yet stream bringing in the coldest of the air mass more sun today, temperatures falling short of yesterday's highs. tomorrow into thursday, more thursday into friday this system will take time coming through mea